Taiwan leader Tsai Ing-wen announced on December 27 that compulsory military service would be extended from four months to one year starting in 2024, triggering criticism from all walks of life on the island.
According to global network comprehensive report In an interview with Hong Kong media, Wu Sihuai, a retired lieutenant general of the Taiwan Army and a "legislator" of the Chinese Kuomintang, believed that the United States was behind Tsai Ing-wen's announcement of a one-year extension of compulsory military service. The DPP authorities have reached a tacit understanding with the United States in private to sing and cooperate with the United States in the direction of "asymmetric war" It is an indisputable fact that Taiwan is prepared to fight "urban war". He couldn't help but call out: "Why should Taiwan be used as a pawn?"
Wu Sihuai pointed out that although Tsai Ing-wen said that there was no pressure from the United States to extend military service, there was obviously the shadow of the United States behind it. Qiu Guozheng, the head of Taiwan's defense department, said on December 7 that it would be "announced before the end of the year." That night, Tsai Ing-wen's office immediately slapped her face and said that "there is currently no definite timetable for planning and finalization." This means that the DPP wants to delay, but in the end, under the pressure of the United States, After Tsai Ing-wen announced the extension of military service on the 27th, Sun Xiaoya, director of the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT), immediately posted a "welcome" on Facebook. Wu Sihuai believed that these were "cut marks" of US pressure.
According to Taiwanese media reports, in response to the Tsai administration's announcement to extend the service period, Kuomintang Taipei City Councilor Yang Zhidou choked, "If there is peace across the Taiwan Strait, how can we need so many soldiers?"
Yang Zhidou said that the easing of cross-strait relations can bring a lot of dividends on the issue of military service. For people of his generation, the most direct impact is the increase in the number of substitutes. , and substitutes serve in public institutions. The regulations for going out are freer than in military camps, and they can control their own rest time at night. At that time, many people were selected for substitute service.
"Chen Shui-bian actually had the nerve to come out and denounce Ma Ying-jeou's military recruitment system ?" Yang Zhidou believed that at that time when the two sides of the Taiwan Strait were at peace, anyone could be a soldier or a substitute, and there was no distinction between good and bad. Compared with the service period that often jumped from two to three years in the past, it was quite lucky, but now it is obviously because of the bad relations between the two sides that the service period has to be returned to one year. "Chen Shui-bian, please ask yourself, if there is peace on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, why would there be a need for so many troops? Why bother forcing young people to do so?" Ready to go to the battlefield?"
Yang Zhidou suggested that Lin Feifan used to enjoy the dividends of cross-strait peace and work as a substitute in the nursing center in Tainan , but now he messes up cross-strait relations and shouts and fights within the Democratic Progressive Party. He should re-enter the military service and bear the price of the so-called "resistance to China and Taiwan protection". "With this military service reform, 'Lin Jiuwan' can become 'Lin 20,000'. Compared with our 'eight and a half yuan hourly salary' at that time, Lin Feifan is still much happier!"
